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Word: californians (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York Congressman also carries some Western clout as a native Californian and former San Diego quarterback. He appeals to G.O.P. right- wingers and supply-side purists and has a gritty optimism that could attract blue-collar Reagan Democrats. But he has already proved himself an uninspiring campaigner in the primaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great G.O.P. Veepstakes Scoreboard | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

...been, in other words, business as usual in the world of Producer Steven Bochco. And that business has been awfully good. Bochco, 44, a deceptively laid-back Californian with a fierce determination to shatter TV's familiar formulas, is on a roll. L.A. Law, his designer drama about life in the legal fast lane, is about to end its second season on NBC as the highest- rated dramatic show on TV's highest-rated network. Hooperman, starring John Ritter as a sensitive San Francisco cop, is one of the season's top-rated new series and an ambitious pioneer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Changing The Face of Prime Time | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...three or four, sometimes even eight or nine, fetuses. Not only does such a pregnancy threaten the mother's health, but each extra fetus increases the risk of miscarriage or premature birth, which can cause an infant's death or irreparable brain damage. In a widely publicized 1985 case, Californian Patti Frustaci gave birth prematurely to septuplets; only three survived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Bitter Cost: Dangers of multiple births | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...planned to apply for a credit card. Then she heard a rumor that students who asked for a Visa card or MasterCard at a campus Citibank booth were rejected if they were majoring in the humanities. An English major and a reporter for the college paper, the Daily Californian, Chang asked the company representative if the rumor was true. Said Chang: "She told me, 'Just put in either business administration or electrical engineering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKS: No Credit For Humanities | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

...weekend series of concerts on the south bank of the Thames was billed as the "Berlioz Experience." Californian in nomenclature but quintessentially British in structure, the intensive three-day festival of concerts and lectures featured readings of the Fantastique and Romeo on original instruments. Moreover, it was the first time in more than a century that this music has been given voice in the same distinctive timbres that Berlioz was hearing in his head when he wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Only Poetry Played Here | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

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